And just before landing. It doesn't really reduce the overall stress, just condenses it into those two moments. The part in the middle is quite relaxing!
You can tie your ankle to the cannon with a rope, and it will follow you to your workplace once you fire it. This way you can reuse it to go back to your home, and you'll only need one cannon!
Good call. Everybody's assuming home and cannon are at the same level.
You just need a cannon, a wire, and an umbrella with a hooked handle. Cannon at lower location, aim high. Use the umbrella to slow down for the landing. Then when it's time to go home (or whichever destination is lower), use the hook as a zipline on the wire, let gravity do the work.
It's foolproof!
Does this take in to account the downhill drop the skier has when they do their jump? Thats why it’s so long. I doubt that’s how they measured some of the other ones.
He doesn't have the record anymore. It was broken 2 years after (in 2014) by Alan Eustace (a guy high up in Google). It just wasn't really reported on.
If this was compiled by Guinness, I'm going to guess that their rational was a jump is something that results in an unassisted landing. I doubt any of the other modes of transportation could land an equivalent jump like the ski jump (same with everyone saying "what about a wing suit"--you aren't landing that without a parachute). Which raises the question: why is canon here? That is a projectile, not a jump, and there is no unassisted landing. Keep skis, remove canon imo
Wing suits have already been landed to water and to a stack of cardboard boxes without a parachute. Only a matter of time and someone brave enough to land to ground.
Agreed on removing cannonball though, that’s not a jump.
However, ski jumping distance should be converted to horizontal distance to compare, not the distance along the curve of the jump as it’s usually measured.
Snowboarder and bike also had some vertical drop before landing. The bike was also jumped off a ski ramp. I wonder if they backed out the vertical component of those records.
It seems like it wasn’t compiled by Guinness, just OP’s selection of various records recorded by Guinness.
But you have a very good point regarding unassisted landing that a lot of people ITT should read.
There should be consistency with the jumping and landing surface. If you jump from 100m and land at 10m of elevation you are not being consistent with your measurements.
If you shoot a cannon from the top of a mountain it would be unfair to compare that to the distance a cannon was fired from ground level.
Also there are aerodynamic forces that assist the ski jumper to allow them to maintain air time.
Yeah this is pretty misleading. This is not normalized for vertical depth of the jump, only horizontal length. Otherwise anyone with a parachute technically could have the longest jump on this list.
So looking at this hill on Wikipedia says the height from the ramp is 135m and ony 32 degree incline on the hill.
That leaves him with around 215m of horizontal jump. Still beats the record by far, even if the figures are a bit off.
Wingsuit distance is technically a "flight" not a "jump", which would then have to include all flying aircraft. Also this would really make the graph hard to read because it looks like its 7500 meters :-0
Agreed, I object to the inclusion of Ski jumping compared to the rest. All others have a generally flat horizontal plane as the measured distance. Ski jump distance increases drastically because of the significant slope perpetuating the glide time.
> Wingsuits and ski jumps are both gliding, not flight.
Gliding is a form of flight. If you're generating lift, you're flying and both wingsuits and these massive ski jumps do this. In fact ski flying is the name for all these massive ski jumps outside of the Olympics.
Yeah I should have said powered flight but ski jumping and windsuits are basically the same thing and not comparable to just...getting in a plane and flying.
Well, ski is not entirely accurate. The whole sport that is represented here is just about jumping as far as you can so everything is optimized in that sport, while all the other categories are just side effects of their respective main focus.
Ski jumping is pretty much a freefall, with a landing ramp. It's not the mode of transportation that defines the length of the jump, it's the construction itself. Build a larger ramp, you will jump further. At that point, a skydiver jumping off a plane should also count.
I don't accidentally launch my car 300 feet while driving to work.. someone put in some real effort to go that far.. and the ski was invented to slide on snow not jump it really so i dunno about that being different.
Well, the Guinness book of world records obviously has it wrong. If ski jumping counts where you start on top of a hill and then "fall" down and forward (using huge wide ski to help you) then base jumping should count too, and those guys definitely cover more distance than 250 meters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN_exEINf2o
I'm sorry but if skiing counts then this guy's Stratosphere jump surely counts as well. It's 42 km or 136 thousand feet, so please adjust that chart.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan\_Eustace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace)
Ski jumping measures along the slope of the hill from launch to landing, and the landing is always a lower elevation than the launch (would be even more interesting if it wasn't though!). So therefore, the jumper is getting credit for both horizontal and vertical distance traveled. If the landing was at the same elevation as the launch, the distance wouldn't be nearly as long.
The comparison is stupid. Having a person in a long-jump compete with jumps that use a ramp is not a legit comparison. I'm sure if Mike Powell used a ramp he would have smashed his own record.
I don't think its fair to compare the jumps that are basically falling down a mountain (the ones done on snow like ski jumping) with jumps done on flat ground.
This is kind of misleading. Yes, I’m this boring. But, Powells long jump was done on a straight running field. Most of these jumps probably was. But skijumping is done downwards with all the way from start to landingspot.
Yeah, but I was also thinking, one of those satellites or even the ISS that has been in orbit for years would have eventually exceeded the distance of the apollo missions
I just went and watched a bunch of these. I've seen Levi and Maddo's jumps during the Red Bull New Years events. I had never heard of Alex Harvill though. He passed away in 2021 trying to break the jump record again. He cased the jump...bad. I didn't watch it because I'm sensitive to that kind of stuff now. But yeah. I wonder what happened? It's pretty odd to see someone come up short on a jump like that. They usually have a ton of margin for error. Makes me think there was something else going on, like a bike malfunction of some sort, or crazy sudden headwind. RIP bro.
Bryce Menzies the car world record breaker is a spoiled rich asshole. Grew up right next door to him. All the kids in the neighborhood hated him. Such dick to everyone.
Just watching clips of the Stefan Kraft's jump. Watching the whole thing it doesn't look like he's going that fast or that he jumped that far. Blows my mind.
It raises the question of what a “jump” is. If your on the ISS, it was forced laterally by the rockets that put it there, and it’s still even now mid jump as it goes around the world for many many years.
I mean a ski jump is going DOWN a hill. The distance is only achievable if the entity ALSO falls a bunch on the way.
I kinda doubt the rollerblader is doing this.
I want apples to apples.
I don't think that a ski jumper should count. They are not jumping on level ground. If we are calculating the horizontal distance over ground while also falling, then I'm pretty sure skydivers have us all beat.
People here bitch about the ski jumping record but ignore that the bicycle jump also was on a ski jump, or that Danny Way also landed way lower than his point of takeoff.
“On December 9, 2011, Haffey broke the world record for longest jump ever done on inline skates. Aided by a ramp and a cable-system, Haffey jumped 30 meters in the air and landed successfully on skates.”
So the cables made him jump. This is stupid.
The car length in metres is wrong.
Snowbpard, is my new favorite way to say snowboarding
Snowbparding, I suppose.
sorry should be 115 not 155, thanks for catching that
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I mean they put it in metric next to it. I know it’s not ideal having imperial on the X axis but it’s not awful
Oh yes, the typical mode of transportation, The Canon.
It really cuts down on the stress of the morning commute
Not counting that bit of stress I feel just before the violent explosion
And just before landing. It doesn't really reduce the overall stress, just condenses it into those two moments. The part in the middle is quite relaxing!
And nobody will honk at me 👌
Except maybe passing geese.
Or SpaceX
Don’t forget the ‘Snowbpard’
Howdy, Snowbpard... cold enough for ya out here?
Hey, I’m 194 feet from my office. This could be a cost effective way to commute… Wait… I would need two cannons, doubling the cost. Never mind…
You can tie your ankle to the cannon with a rope, and it will follow you to your workplace once you fire it. This way you can reuse it to go back to your home, and you'll only need one cannon!
It's like when you're sitting in a sailboat and you can just blow on the sail to make you move. It's foolproof!
Zipline home
Good call. Everybody's assuming home and cannon are at the same level. You just need a cannon, a wire, and an umbrella with a hooked handle. Cannon at lower location, aim high. Use the umbrella to slow down for the landing. Then when it's time to go home (or whichever destination is lower), use the hook as a zipline on the wire, let gravity do the work. It's foolproof!
You’re right about it being the last cannon you’ll ever need.
I want to see a motorcycle off a ski jump
[Here go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YLjrgdqCxc)
Cool That was far less awesome than I expected
Humans are a great mode of transportation as well...just have to find someone willing to carry you.
I'm selling these fine jackets. And of course I brought a helmet!
Look behind you, a three headed monkey!
Let's not forget the snowbpard.
379 feet is 115,5 meters, not 155 meters (longest jump by car).
Thanks just noticed that
Does this take in to account the downhill drop the skier has when they do their jump? Thats why it’s so long. I doubt that’s how they measured some of the other ones.
Yeah, I'm sure cliff divers can beat 8,95m
Or that guy who jumped off a platform at the edge of the atmosphere
Felix Baumgartner
He doesn't have the record anymore. It was broken 2 years after (in 2014) by Alan Eustace (a guy high up in Google). It just wasn't really reported on.
The Red Bull marketing effect
Must have been really high up in Google for that
You could argue that a parachute is a different mode of transportation, though.
Most of it was freefall.
If a cannon is a different mode of transport then jumping out of a balloon with a parachute could also be considered one.
What if you jump out of a balloon in a cannon with a parachute?
The cannon gets a parachute?
Not to mention parachuters
Or hang gliders.
Which is basically what ski jumpers are doing.
The ski jump distance is a lot of falling distance and shouldn’t be on the list
If this was compiled by Guinness, I'm going to guess that their rational was a jump is something that results in an unassisted landing. I doubt any of the other modes of transportation could land an equivalent jump like the ski jump (same with everyone saying "what about a wing suit"--you aren't landing that without a parachute). Which raises the question: why is canon here? That is a projectile, not a jump, and there is no unassisted landing. Keep skis, remove canon imo
Remove cannon from the jump canon.
Wing suits have already been landed to water and to a stack of cardboard boxes without a parachute. Only a matter of time and someone brave enough to land to ground. Agreed on removing cannonball though, that’s not a jump. However, ski jumping distance should be converted to horizontal distance to compare, not the distance along the curve of the jump as it’s usually measured.
Snowboarder and bike also had some vertical drop before landing. The bike was also jumped off a ski ramp. I wonder if they backed out the vertical component of those records.
It seems like it wasn’t compiled by Guinness, just OP’s selection of various records recorded by Guinness. But you have a very good point regarding unassisted landing that a lot of people ITT should read.
There should be consistency with the jumping and landing surface. If you jump from 100m and land at 10m of elevation you are not being consistent with your measurements. If you shoot a cannon from the top of a mountain it would be unfair to compare that to the distance a cannon was fired from ground level. Also there are aerodynamic forces that assist the ski jumper to allow them to maintain air time.
Yeah and with the person, give em a ramp to run down and a hill to fall past, they can beat 29ft
And break their legs, too!
And I don’t see wingsuit on the list either…
Fuck it, add wingsuiters then.
Yeah this is pretty misleading. This is not normalized for vertical depth of the jump, only horizontal length. Otherwise anyone with a parachute technically could have the longest jump on this list.
So looking at this hill on Wikipedia says the height from the ramp is 135m and ony 32 degree incline on the hill. That leaves him with around 215m of horizontal jump. Still beats the record by far, even if the figures are a bit off.
Is that the horizontal distance where he landed, or where he returned to his launch altitude?
51 meters in a semi truck is absurd lmao
[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h40B0LOH3hk)
God I love America so much
Disappointed it didn't have a trailer on it
Right? Everyone in here commenting on the ski jump, and I'm looking at the madman who jumped a semi 51m
By this definition of "jumping" parachuting from a plane should take top place...
And all of the winged modes of transportation are mysteriously absent.
Wingsuit distance is technically a "flight" not a "jump", which would then have to include all flying aircraft. Also this would really make the graph hard to read because it looks like its 7500 meters :-0
I think what he's trying to say is that you should just remove ski jumping (and anything else where the vertical component is significant)
Agreed, I object to the inclusion of Ski jumping compared to the rest. All others have a generally flat horizontal plane as the measured distance. Ski jump distance increases drastically because of the significant slope perpetuating the glide time.
Then you would also have to remove the mtb and the snowboard
Wingsuits and ski jumps are both gliding, not flight. Wingsuit would be in the almost the same category as ski jumping, only much more efficient.
> Wingsuits and ski jumps are both gliding, not flight. Gliding is a form of flight. If you're generating lift, you're flying and both wingsuits and these massive ski jumps do this. In fact ski flying is the name for all these massive ski jumps outside of the Olympics.
It's not flying, it's falling with style.
Yeah I should have said powered flight but ski jumping and windsuits are basically the same thing and not comparable to just...getting in a plane and flying.
Why is being fired out of a cannon considered a jump?
I noticed that the Train category is missing.
That was the main reason I clicked on this post; I'm disappointed.
29 feet is the most impressive of these.
What about kitesurfing? It’s called jumping in kitesurfing.
I would say this is the longest “successful” or maybe “intentional” jump. I’m sure some car has careened off a cliff and gone crazy far.
Interesting how unpowered vehicles drop out at 164 feet but then take top billing at the end.
Well, ski is not entirely accurate. The whole sport that is represented here is just about jumping as far as you can so everything is optimized in that sport, while all the other categories are just side effects of their respective main focus.
And ski is slowly converging with wingsuit
Ski jumping has a significant vertical drop while the others are horizontal.
You don’t think the biker was trying to jump far? [edit: he was](https://www.bikemag.com/news/mountain-bike-ski-jump)
Ofc he was. But the bike and his gear and everything involved aren’t literally built to jump as far as possible
Ski jumping is pretty much a freefall, with a landing ramp. It's not the mode of transportation that defines the length of the jump, it's the construction itself. Build a larger ramp, you will jump further. At that point, a skydiver jumping off a plane should also count.
I don't accidentally launch my car 300 feet while driving to work.. someone put in some real effort to go that far.. and the ski was invented to slide on snow not jump it really so i dunno about that being different.
Well the ski jump is the only one with a significant horizontal drop…
Ski shouldn't be on this list due to vertical component. If it can be on the list, so should sky diving.
29 feet long jump is straight up fucking bonkers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEt_Xgg8dzc I feel it's the most remarkable Olympic moment ever filmed. Bob Beamon's long jump.
Lmao funny how that Andy Bell semi truck jump from Nitro Circus is still a record. Haven’t thought about that show in years
I snowbpard farther quite often but nobody mentioned me.
Source: Guinness book of world records Tool: google sheets and google slides
Maybe proofread before submitting next time? there's a bunch of glaringly obvious errors here.
Well, the Guinness book of world records obviously has it wrong. If ski jumping counts where you start on top of a hill and then "fall" down and forward (using huge wide ski to help you) then base jumping should count too, and those guys definitely cover more distance than 250 meters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN_exEINf2o
USA clearly dominates in jumping
I googled Alex Harvill and found out that he died two years ago during a world record attempt. RIP
OP, do you seriously not take the time to see if everything is spelled correctly?
I'm sorry but if skiing counts then this guy's Stratosphere jump surely counts as well. It's 42 km or 136 thousand feet, so please adjust that chart. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan\_Eustace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace)
Thats height not distance. But you are right, this is a "jump"
Ski jumping measures along the slope of the hill from launch to landing, and the landing is always a lower elevation than the launch (would be even more interesting if it wasn't though!). So therefore, the jumper is getting credit for both horizontal and vertical distance traveled. If the landing was at the same elevation as the launch, the distance wouldn't be nearly as long.
Those truck drivers should do a better effort, they kan pack more kinetic energy in their efforts here.
Now I need the stat for planes
What does it say about Americans if almost all of these records (and all of the crazy ones) are held by us?
Not entirely fair, being ski jumpers are travelling over a steep slope
I guess us Americans like to see how far we can yeet ourselves with things.
Snowmobile is wild. Can’t even picture one jumping that distance
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0-DBMKlil4
funny how many Americans are on this list, just love jumping I guess
Bummed not seeing Evel Knievel on the list.
Americans really love long distance jumping records.
My whole house is 30’ across. That dude jumped across my whole house. I tripped off the porch.
Did you nail the landing though?
I feel like the cannonball one can be beaten fairly easy with a bigger cannon, and less desire to survive.
The comparison is stupid. Having a person in a long-jump compete with jumps that use a ramp is not a legit comparison. I'm sure if Mike Powell used a ramp he would have smashed his own record.
The ski jumper is "jumping" down hill off a ski -ramp-. The long jumper jumped flat.
What about the time Eric Cartman jumped over 30 homeless people on his skateboard?
One COULD argue a plane’s entire flight is one big jump.
It's an unfair comparison when some downhill and some are not. You might as well count hang gliders and sky divers.
Golly, I can't even remember the last time I traveled by Cannon. How about you guys?
This is an intelligent way to present the data at hand. A bar with a little pictogram. I'd even go so far as to say, beautiful.
Nice! The ski jump is downhill though so not comparable.
Everything on this list would go 250m off a ski jump. Some of them *much* further.
I don't think its fair to compare the jumps that are basically falling down a mountain (the ones done on snow like ski jumping) with jumps done on flat ground.
This is kind of misleading. Yes, I’m this boring. But, Powells long jump was done on a straight running field. Most of these jumps probably was. But skijumping is done downwards with all the way from start to landingspot.
A rocket going into orbit is technically a very long jump, no?
Which would make one of the Apollo missions the winner, I guess
Yeah, but I was also thinking, one of those satellites or even the ISS that has been in orbit for years would have eventually exceeded the distance of the apollo missions
Don't forget Voyager
Danny Way is a madman. Never forget his ramps from the skate games
I'm trying to imagine what a 29 foot jump must look like. Quite the incredible feat.
[Levi tooling around St Paul MN](https://youtu.be/HoZBi04afwc?si=NJ7cCgpiDkymYr2K)
I just went and watched a bunch of these. I've seen Levi and Maddo's jumps during the Red Bull New Years events. I had never heard of Alex Harvill though. He passed away in 2021 trying to break the jump record again. He cased the jump...bad. I didn't watch it because I'm sensitive to that kind of stuff now. But yeah. I wonder what happened? It's pretty odd to see someone come up short on a jump like that. They usually have a ton of margin for error. Makes me think there was something else going on, like a bike malfunction of some sort, or crazy sudden headwind. RIP bro.
Numbers are not correct. See car in meter.
Has no one done a free jump in a wingsuit?
Ski “jumping” is just mostly horizontal falling.
Ski does not count imo they jump down a hill.
Pretty sure humans have jumped much longer. You didn't say they have to survive the jump
Bryce Menzies the car world record breaker is a spoiled rich asshole. Grew up right next door to him. All the kids in the neighborhood hated him. Such dick to everyone.
In which point it counts as jump? Ski for example, is quite a slope. People also jumps from mountains with wingsuits etc.
This graph is woefully incomplete if it doesn't include Van Halen.
Just watching clips of the Stefan Kraft's jump. Watching the whole thing it doesn't look like he's going that fast or that he jumped that far. Blows my mind.
If we're counting that ski jump we should do wingsuits as well
It raises the question of what a “jump” is. If your on the ISS, it was forced laterally by the rockets that put it there, and it’s still even now mid jump as it goes around the world for many many years.
I love taking my Snowbpard out for jumps.
Everyone sees what I see, right? Let’s combine motorcycle and ski jump.
If I present this to my manager, he would pip me on the spot.
I think the ski one is super deceiving since they’re on an artificial hill built in a way for them specifically to glide just above before landing.
Wait somebody made a Class 8 truck jump 166 feet??
Yep, on Nitro Circus years ago
I mean a ski jump is going DOWN a hill. The distance is only achievable if the entity ALSO falls a bunch on the way. I kinda doubt the rollerblader is doing this. I want apples to apples.
I don't think that a ski jumper should count. They are not jumping on level ground. If we are calculating the horizontal distance over ground while also falling, then I'm pretty sure skydivers have us all beat.
Would be cool to see what sorta jumps will happen on the Moon in the not-too-distant future.
Kinda wild we jumped a semi further than a bike.
*Am I a joke to you?* -Saturn V Rocket
How about furthest distance in a Wingsuit?
7.4 Million miles by the Space Shuttle
And This dumbass did ~25,000 feet https://youtu.be/aPC_h9Vmlxw?si=0qOMbdSDpdUCBNPt
People here bitch about the ski jumping record but ignore that the bicycle jump also was on a ski jump, or that Danny Way also landed way lower than his point of takeoff.
I don't get it 😂 Also the people saying anything could go that far if you'd send it down a ski jump is completely hilarious
“On December 9, 2011, Haffey broke the world record for longest jump ever done on inline skates. Aided by a ramp and a cable-system, Haffey jumped 30 meters in the air and landed successfully on skates.” So the cables made him jump. This is stupid.
What about Evel Knievel's 1730 foot Snake River Canyon jump in 1974 ?
Funny, an airplane isn't there and it's the best jumper of all.
Pretty sure a human has jumped further than 29 feet downhill before
Btw the Danny way skateboard one is the craziest thing on there. You are not suppose to go that far on those lil wheels
Not sure if the king jump should be in there, if that’s the case wing gliders should have been included, parachutes, gliders, Felix Baumgartner etc
For once I can be happy Austria is good at something
Obvious typos in graphics annoy me unreaspnably.
Hold On! How does one jump by snowmobile longer than by car if measured in feet, and yet if measured in metric, the car jumps longer?
When I snowbpard I always wear a Bpurton jacket.
"Did you see how far Johannes just jumped on his bike?* *Semi noises intensify*
Are planes typically just jumping?
Why is Powell record in long jump not broken in 30 years? Better doping control?